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Re:Noted study in psychology fails to replicate, crumbles wi... by thaumasiotes on Sunday August 22, 2021 @08:20AM (#28264873)
> yet here the deviation was half of mean which means they used a uniform variable

What am I missing? The mean of a normal distribution can be any value. A normal with mean 2 and deviation 1 has deviation equal to half of the mean.

Is this related to the fact that miles driven can't be negative (unlike a sample from a genuine normal)?

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Re:Noted study in psychology fails to replicate, crumbles wi... by CuriouslyC on Sunday August 22, 2021 @08:39AM (#28264982)
I think this is an overzealous statement of the central limit theorem. A log-normal distribution would probably be a better model in this case.
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